With a name like “Fuzzy Wuzzy,” no one expects a 1,300-pound steer to answer.

But that’s exactly what happened Wednesday night at the Montgomery County Fair Junior Livestock Auction as Kaycie Carter, a Caney Creek High School junior, led her grand champion steer onto the auction block.

Woodforest Bank was the highest bidder for the animal at $21,000.

“We are a community bank,” said Benny Pitzer, Woodforest regional president. “We put our money back into the community and to support the youth of the community.”

Just as Woodforest isn’t new to the auction, neither is the Carter family.

“Fuzzy Wuzzy” was the sixth grand champion steer from the Carter sisters, who started showing at age 8.

“I was really excited that all of my hard work over the years paid off,” 17-year-old Kaycie Carter, a Caney Creek FFA member, said. “All of our time is committed to our steers and in the barn.”

Sister Codi Carter took grand champion steer in 2007, and sister Jessica Carter took the title four times before that. However, Jessica said the girls wouldn’t have made it without the support of their parents, Kay and Dempsey Carter, who showed animals at the Montgomery County Fair as a student.

The reserve champion steer and third-place steer went to sisters Kali Koy, 11, and Kassi Koy, 8, respectively. Both are members of Champion 4-H Club.

“I was excited,” Kali, a fifth-grader at Vista Academy in Willis, said about her steer “Huckleberry” taking reserve champion.

The 1,350-pound animal sold for $18,000 to Conroe New Car and Truck Dealers, which includes Wiesner, Streater, DeMontrond, Buckalew and Gullo (Toyota and Ford).

“We want to support the kids and the program and the community,” Tony Gullo Jr. said.

However, the car dealers don’t plan on keeping the animal.

“We give the steer to a (charitable) organization in town that can use the meat,” Don Buckalew said.

The grand champion lamb also kept things in the family.

Cullen Cartwright, a third-grader at Geisinger Elementary, followed in the footsteps of his older brother Ethan, who is now a student at Texas A&M University, by taking the title his first year showing at the fair. Ethan took grand champion lamb twice and reserve champion lamb at least once.

“I wasn’t expecting it,” Cullen, 9, said.

The Champion 4-H Club member auctioned off his 130-pound animal to John and Babs Causey for $10,000.

“We knew we were going to buy something,” John Causey said about their annual visit to the fair.

Most buyers are longtime supporters of the fair, coming out for years and supporting both the Non-livestock and Livestock shows.

“This is one of the best county fairs in the country,” said Paul Zylman, officer in charge of the livestock judging committee. “The judges are very complimentary of the animals.”

While the judges liked what they saw, buyers weren’t as willing to raise the bidding prices. Last year, the grand champion steer sold for $28,000, $7,000 more than this year.

That was something organizers were expecting - and dreading - given the current state of the economy.

“This is for the kids,” Scott Golemon, Livestock Auction Committee officer in charge, said before the bidding stared. “That’s what we got to remember.”

The Junior Livestock Auction marks the midway point of the 10-day fair, which ends Sunday.